On Fri, 25 May 2007, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Friday 25 May 2007 16:00, Russell Jones wrote: > > > However, I have situation where I can't boot from cdrom because the > > > notebook doesn't have the drive. But, it can boot from USB. > > > So, I thought I can boot from USB flashdisk from the Opensuse mini iso, > > > and from there perform network installation of Opensuse10.2. > > > Something like passing install=nfs://myserver:/src hostip=xxx.xxx.x.x etc > > > etc. Sorry for the confusion. > > > > IIRC, you need to install grub and an MBR on the flash disk after > > formatting it with, e.g. ext3. An ISO image will use the "El Torito" (I > > think it's called) boot mechanism which works differently and is only > > for CDs, DVDs, etc. You may be able to loopback mount the ISO and copy > > the files to the disk, then use grub-install's --root-directory > > parameter to make it bootable. > > Thanks Russell, > That sounds interesting. I'm gonna try it soon and report back.
Theres a 'mkbootdisk' script on the CD that does exactly what you want. Steffen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
